Download e-book for iPad: Odd Bloom Seen from Space (Iowa Poetry Prize) by Timothy Daniel Welch

By Timothy Daniel Welch

These poems converse a wierd nostalgia for what activates, in, and along the realm. A tragedy of loss, a miracle of eroticism, or a comedy of highway kill, Odd Bloom visible from Space appears to be like on the self amid the ashes of fleeting exultation and uncertainty. The speaker tells tales with wild candor on concerns of heroic inadequacy whereas looking through his obsessive questions for larger meaning.

But it’s within the act of discovery, throughout the hero’s quick ancestry that Welch’s debut assortment confronts giant questions on family members, tune, paintings, and reminiscence. Like a latest Diogenes who pursues that means one small gesture at a time, Welch involves examine fact is a “brutal commerce,” attractiveness is “white legs / upon which she shed her childhood,” time is “Michael Jackson / hooting within the trees,” and “Love is sluggish, a bottle / by way of sips, a bottle / poured onto the floor.” there's knowledge to be won from those creative targets, yet finally it’s now not what's stated, yet how it’s stated with terse rhetoric, deep imagery, and incredible humor that makes Odd Bloom noticeable from Space this type of lovely, unique, and baffling collection.

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